Paweł Śpica: doctor of Social Sciences in the field of pedagogy, social pedagogue, historian, historian of education, Vice-Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences to the UG, Head of the Teacher Education Centre to the UG, representative of the UG in the European Teacher Education Network; conducts research in the area of history of education and school pedagogy
ORCID: 0000-0002-0170-9834
Małgorzata Obrycka: doctor of Social Sciences, educator, psychologist. Assistant professor at the Department of History of Science, Education and Upbringing (University of Gdansk). Specialist in quantitative and qualitative methodology. Conducts research on new technologies in education (eyetracking), ecological pedagogy, school pedagogy, independent ethics and posthumanism. Author of the concept of education for interspecies humanitarianism.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8202-4185
Aleksandra Zahorska: master of Science in Chemistry with a specialization in teaching. Doctor of pedagogy. Assistant professor at the Division of Didactics and Popular Science at the Faculty of Chemistry. Specializes in the education and training of future teachers. Passionate about popularizing chemical knowledge and a constructivist approach in education. Teacher of chemistry and German language at a primary school.
ORCID: 0009-0004-4492-1810
Szymon Dąbrowski: doctor of Social Sciences in the discipline of pedagogy. Philosopher and sociologist. Assistant Professor at the Department of the History of Science, Education, and Upbringing (University of Gdańsk). Specialist in educational tutoring and mentoring (Collegium Wratislaviense). Conducts research in the field of cultural and religious pedagogy and critical analyses of pedagogical axiology. Current research project concerns the processual pedagogy of religion. www.szymondabrowski.com
0000-0002-7268-5665
Grażyna Szyling: post-doctoral degree of Social Sciences in the field of pedagogy, assistant professor at the Department of Childhood and School Research (University of Gdańsk). Her research focuses primarily on theoretical concepts of learning and assessment and their practical applications; she is also interested in teacher education; the author of the theoretical concept: the ambivalence of assessment in education and a hybrid approach to the teaching-learning category in school assessmen; editorial secretary of the scientific journal: "Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji/Issues in Early Education" (e-ISSN 2451-2230).
0000-0002-3987-2450
Paweł Śpica
Małgorzata Obrycka
Aleksandra Zahorska
Szymon Dąbrowski
Grażyna Szyling
Our research team is a response to one of the key challenges of contemporary education systems in Poland and abroad, which is building valuable cooperation between schools and students' parents.
In 2024, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Pomerania in Słupsk and the Pomeranian University of Applied Sciences in Starogard Gdański, we conducted qualitative research consisting of conducting nearly 60 phenomenographic interviews with teachers (representing four generations present on the labor market - BB, X, Y, Z) employed in general secondary schools in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (Poland). We asked the surveyed teachers about their understanding of the concept of cooperation between schools and parents, their experiences in this cooperation and their vision of ideal cooperation. The research results we obtained indicate communication as a key element in building valuable school-parent cooperation.
In connection with the above, we currently (using quantitative methods) want to research the communication competences of teachers in selected European countries. The study we propose, in which we would like to involve researchers from other SEA-EU member universities, will bring us closer to achieving our main educational goal, which is to prepare a program to support the development of teachers' communication skills. Together with researchers from other universities, we would like to develop a common research tool (quantitative) and conduct comparative research in selected SEA-EU member countries.
Obrycka M., Zalewska-Meler A., Spostrzeganie wzrokowe dziecka przedszkolnego jako złożona funkcja poznawcza: eyetracking w badaniach pedagogicznych, Gdańsk 2025.
Śpica P., Hegemonic childhood in the Polish community of West Prussia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, 'Problemy wczesnej edukacji' 2022, nr 2.
Obrycka M., W stronę posthumanizmu. O wychowaniu do humanitaryzmu międzygatunkowego, Toruń 2021.
Siemionow J., Śpica P. (red)., Historyczne i współczesne konteksty badań nad edukacją: studia teoretyczne i analizy empiryczne z okazji jubileuszu sześćdziesięciolecia pedagogiki gdańskiej (1958-2018), Toruń 2019.
Śpica P., Powszechna Organizacja "Służba Polsce" w województwie gdańskim w latach 1948-1955: edukacja i indoktrynacja młodzieży, Gdańsk 2017.